Meet the industry practitioners and customers speaking at SmartBear Connect

Carson Underwood

Carson Underwood

Test Automation: How To Succeed When Moving Beyond Manual Testing

Talk Description

The biggest problems most companies new to automation experience come down to unrealistic expectations and poor up front planning. QA Automation in its current form is a fantastic and useful addition to the traditional SDLC and QA practices. However, it has to be made clear that it is impossible to automate 100% of all testing. While a lot of people will see immediate cost benefits to automation and set full coverage as a goal, they will quickly realize that the cost of maintenance becomes too high in an agile world. For automation to be successful there has to be careful planning with regards to what is appropriate to automate, how to create and maintain tests with a verify defined set of standards, and how manual testing efforts and automation can work together, not in opposition.

Bio

I am a veteran of software development covering a wide range of disciplines. While studying Computer Information Systems and later Computer Science at Missouri State University I got an early start to my career by being QA Analyst for Black Lantern Studios, testing video games for various platforms. My 8-year tenure at BLS saw my growth into a QA Lead, and eventually a project manager. During this time my day-to-day role varied between, test management, project management, design, and level scripting. In March 2015, I started at O'Reilly as a QA Automation developer. The automation department was very young at the time and I was an integral part of selecting an automation tool (Test Complete) and developing a set of standards and frameworks which lead to my current position of QA Automation Engineer. Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cunderw/

Lorinda Brandon

Director, Developer Marketing

Capital One DevExchange

Lorinda Brandon

Implementing Continuous Improvement Techniques for Your API Design

Talk Description

When people think about API Design, they immediately think about how to name the resources and build the OpenAPI definition. But the real crux of your API Design lies with figuring out what it should do, how it should do it, and how to improve it. Like any other product in your portfolio, you need to connect with customers and learn what they need before *and after* you design your API.

Bio

http://lorindabrandon.com

Robert Martin

QA Engineer

Select Medical

Robert Martin

QA Engineer, Select Medical

Lessons Learned: The Challenges and Successes of Integrating Automated Testing into Existing Development Projects

Talk Description

Automated Testing is one of the major "new" items to be incorporated into software development projects. Companies who previously had no automated testing are now seeking to add it to their development life cycle to mature and legacy projects. In doing so, there are challenges and potential barriers in getting an automated testing process up and running where none existed before. In several companies I've worked for, this has been done with varied levels of success. I will be presenting generally my observations and "lessons learned" after being involved in several of these processes and will list out what I feel are some of the ways of increasing the change of a successful automation launch.

Bio

Robert has been in software testing and quality assurance for over 16 years. In his first testing position, he was handed a tool called AQTest to implement an automated regression testing project. He hasn't looked back since. Robert still is accomplished at exploratory testing and manual testing in the software development life cycle but is a recognized expert in using the TestComplete tool for testing desktop and web applications. He has presented training seminars for SmartBear academy and is a frequent contributor and expert on the SmartBear TestComplete forums.

Richard Feller

Owner

Hedgehog Technology Services

Richard Feller

API Testing and Performance Monitoring Makes Sense and Makes Cents!

Talk Description

Many cloud and service based hosting companies offer basic monitoring but why should they offer an expanded level of monitoring. It make sense that many customers need a higher level of monitoring.A real dollar value can also be contributed to proper monitoring. Clients can see a clear ROI on properly managing the way that they monitor there systems and hosting and cloud companies can increase their revenues by providing these services as an add on to their existing suite of services.

Bio

Richard Feller has been working in the Internet infrastructure industry since early 1995. His career started as one of the first employees of ServInt Internet Services, which during his time there grew to one of the largest web hosting providers of the time. In his position as Director of Sales and Business Development, he focused specifically on medium to large web hosting clients. After leaving ServInt in 2000, Richard was charged with managing the restructuring and integration of Digiweb, a division of Interliant Web Hosting, and after successfully managing the primary aspects of that restructuring, Richard and his partners founded Hedgehog Hosting in early 2001. As a principal at Hedgehog, Richard provides his expertise in streamlining business processes and growing their web hosting, cyber-security and cloud technology services. Hedgehog primary serves the Association and Non-Profit sector. In late 2016 Richard and his team launched a new division of the company called Hedgehog Technology Services. This branch of services focuses on supporting and maintaining legacy systems while preparing to move these architectures into current cloud environments both inside and outside of the Hedgehog Hosting infrastructure. Richard is also a past member of the Board of Directors for the Internet Infrastructure Coalition and now focuses on special outreach projects for the coalition, and he sits on the Board of the Small Business Council for the Consumer Technology Association. Outside the office, he is very active with his sons’ school, focusing on theater, music and coaching high school rugby.

Sabyasachi Gupta

Product Architect

Zaloni Inc

Sabyasachi Gupta

Product Architect, Zaloni Inc

Microservices Architecture - Building 'SMART' & 'Agile' Software

Talk Description

Building software which is SMART (Scalable, Measurable, Available, Reliable & Testable) is non-trivial. Design & Architecture principles like SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), TOGAF & Zachman made us build monolith applications which were tough to build and maintain i.e. not 'Agile'. In today's 'Instant Nirvana' generation, we need to build SMART systems. This session will distinguish between systems and applications, talk about Conway's Laws and how we can learn from it to build SMART systems, venture into DDD (Domain Driven Design) and eventually get into details as to how to realize Microservices Architecture using existing tools like Jhipster, Swagger and other open source applications.

Bio

Sabyasachi Gupta aka Sabby has been working in the software industry for all his career. Sabby has performed multiple roles - starting as a Software Engineer and then managing projects to architecting startup products and leading and managing high performance agile product teams. He has experience in multiple business domains like healthcare, media, airline, financial to name a few. Sabby was one of the initial adopters of 'Api First' design, big data technologies and microservices architecture during his technical leadership role at Myspace - a pioneer in social networking. He believes building SMART (Scalable, Measurable, Available, Reliable & Testable) software is non-trivial and hence wants to do his part of cascading his experience of building SMART software.

In his current role he is leading the technical architecture of few big data products @ Zaloni, located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Andy Lachapelle

Andy Lachapelle

Moving From HP ALM to SmartBear QAComplete – Why and How

Talk Description

A presentation by Rich Meskill and Andy Lachapelle on why they decided to implement QAComplete and their experience doing so.

Bio

Experienced Quality Assurance Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the insurance, advertising, and broadcast media industries. Skilled in Oracle Database, API Testing, Test Automation, Data Warehousing, and Test Management. Former IT trainer and consultant in the areas of screen design, report design, data modeling, and database programming.

Kevin Johnson

Lead Automation Engineer, Product Vision

Tyler Technologies

Kevin Johnson

Lead Automation Engineer, Product Vision, Tyler Technologies

Test Automation using SmartBear’s TestComplete, QAComplete and other technologies

Talk Description

In late 2015, Tyler Technology’s New World Public Safety division embarked on an exciting replacement for their industry leading Public Safety Records product. While the existing product is built as a classic native windows application, the new initiative is a web application. The fledgling QA Team had already assembled a library of manual tests using QAComplete, and a small amount of exploratory automation using TestComplete. My directive within the project was to prototype and implement a continuous integration automation of the new web application’s front end and enable the team on this front. This session will describe how this test automation project was initiated, the issues and challenges we worked through, and the future of this initiative.

Bio

SK Bhachech

Director, Service Quality and Security

Everbridge

SK Bhachech

Director, Service Quality and Security, Everbridge

Software-as-a-Service: Inception, Testing and Production monitoring

Talk Description

In today's SaaS world, software engineers are building RESTful microservices, quality engineers are using increasing amount of automation for functional as well as load and performance testing, and site reliability engineers ("those Ops people") are going beyond just uptime monitoring. Just as Dev and Ops have converged to coin the term DevOps, the convergence of technologies under SmartBear's umbrella (Swagger UI, SoapUI, LoadUI, and AlertSite) enables Everbridge to deliver high quality, high performance, highly available set of features and functionality to our customers. This is our story.

Bio

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhachech/

Reginald Moore

Manager, Software QA

LifeWatch Services, Inc.

Reginald Moore

Manager, Software QA, LifeWatch Services, Inc.

Doing the Impossible: Implementing new TestComplete Framework for Windows Application

Talk Description

We will discuss identifying the way to choose the best frame work, implementing the new framework and dealing with the challenges to continue to improve the framework that was selected.

Bio

Reginald Moore Jr has spent his career working within software testing teams. He has been part of creating Automation Frameworks for multiple companies dealing with web services and device testing. He current serves as the Software Quality Manager at Lifewatch Services Inc, where he leads of team of talented Automation and Manual Software Quality Engineers working to continuously improve the pursuit of quality software—from design to delivery and everything in between

Naveen Byreddy

Sr. Director, Software Development

Charter Communications

Naveen Byreddy

Sr. Director, Software Development, Charter Communications

Cloud Native Journey from Netflix OSS to Containers and Sidecars

Talk Description

Charter Communications has undertaken a journey that started by going Cloud Native using Netflix OSS and the internally hosted tooling to help launch several projects that are consumer facing and the path forward using Containers and the orchestration that goes along with it. The first version of the internal Platform as a Service (PaaS) was built around the microservices architecture and focused on one public cloud provider using Machine Images. In this session, we will discuss the evolution of this initiative over the last year to leverage container technology (primarily Docker) with the Orchestration engine (Kubernetes) and the right Service mesh to go with running this PaaS infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. The session will also cover the design principles required to achieve the "3 R’s"... Reliable, Resilient, and Robust, which was a critical priority for Charter starting from the use of Machine Images in one public cloud provider to the current hybrid infrastructure and onto the future state where applicable apps would run the container oriented infrastructure.

Bio

Naveenreddy Byreddy is Sr.Director of Software Engineering at Charter Communications focused on PaaS and consumer facing Video on Demand software. Naveen has strong expertise in helping build public/private cloud based infrastructure including PaaS (Platform as a Service) for software that is scalable, reliable and continuously available. Naveen has helped build Applications using the cloud native software approach leveraging micro services and discovery based services. He has been facilitating the PaaS engineering work to help migrate the services from machine based deployments to Container / Kubernetes based approach. Reach out to him at www.linkedin.com/in/naveenby

Corey Anderson

Engineering Manager I

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

Corey Anderson

Engineering Manager I, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

TestComplete Frameworks [Panel]

Talk Description

Corey will join a group of experts on the "Automation Frameworks with TestComplete." More about the Panel: Everyone has their own style when it comes to building a Test Automation Framework. In this panel, TestComplete customers will discuss their own best practices when building a good automation framework.

Bio

Corey L. Anderson is a seasoned test manager with 20+ years of experience in development and test on quality focused software products. Corey manages test teams using automation frameworks to design and verify complex software systems in the Operations, Systems, and Analytics division at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. Corey has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Graphic Design. Corey is a loving husband to his wife Jennifer and dedicated father to 3 sons and 2 daughters. Corey’s hobbies include golfing, foodie, water skiing, and First Lego League coach.

Nandor Szabo

Software Tester

Novell Professional Services Hungary

Nandor Szabo

Software Tester, Novell Professional Services Hungary

Unintended Uses of SoapUI [Panel]

Talk Description

SoapUI is not only a test tool but a very good sequencer to control other external software during automatic test runs. By inserting a small companion app into the test framework around the SoapUI, we can outspread our test coverage to non API testing areas. I will be showing you how my team created a tool, SoapUI Assist, to manage test environments.

Bio

Nandor Szabo is software test engineer, with a strong background of Telco sector. He spent 20 years in the biggest Hungarian Telco operator, as a test engineer and test group leader.His experiences grow up from network device testing and authentication (AAA) system testing. Nandor currentley as software test engineer for an IT developer company, as active tester and developing complete test automation projects.

Mark Willis

Global Security

Aetna

Mark Willis

Global Security, Aetna

Building an API Security Strategy

Talk Description

When people hear the term “application security”, more often than not they tend to think of Desktop, Mobile, and Web Applications; with APIs being overlooked or simply as an afterthought from a security perspective. In a world interdependent upon APIs, organizations can no longer ignore the importance of properly securing their APIs – for their own use and the potential use by 3rd parties. Whether the software development cadence is Agile, DevOps or a Traditional SDLC approach, Mark will present a roadmap to developing an API Security Strategy that will fit into your existing Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) or as part of a newly designed Secure SDLC.

Bio

Mark leads Aetna’s Software and Mobile Security Group, hosts Aetna’s internal, Global Security Radio Show “Cyber Security Today”, and serves as an implementation lead for Aetna’s 3rd party risk management and security tool development. Since joining Global Security in 2014, Mark has constructed an industry leading security testing program that covers API, Desktop, Mobile, Network, and Web Applications.

Ted Epstein

CEO

RepreZen

Ted Epstein

API Contract-As-Code: Rapid Development with OAS3

Talk Description

API-first puts the API at the center of your product strategy. Contract-first puts API design quality at the top of the agenda. But when it's time to start coding, can we really use an OpenAPI spec? Aside from telling us what to build, and maybe generating a one-time scaffold, what can it do for us? In this session, we'll leverage the expressive power of OpenAPI 3.0 in a fast, iterative development lifecycle. We'll show how, with a few basic rules in place, we can drive API evolution from the OAS contract, all the way through to microservice implementation.

Bio

Ted Epstein is Founder & CEO of RepreZen, providing leading solutions for enterprise API design, documentation and development. Ted participates in the OpenAPI TDC, leads the architecture of RAPID-ML, co-organizes the API-Craft NYC Meetup, and speaks at conferences including QCon, EclipseCon, API-Craft, and Data Modeling Zone

Chakravarthy Devarakonda|

Asst. Vice President, Enterprise Solutions Group

Cigniti Technologies Ltd

Chakravarthy Devarakonda|

Continuous Testing Approach for Success in Agile & DevOps

Talk Description

The concept of Agile and DevOps has become very popular as organizations try to meet faster delivery schedules and improve collaboration across different teams. Delivering high quality applications in such an agile world is becoming more complex and challenging than ever because of increased pressure on testing teams to move faster. Forrester Research says Agile adoption has surpassed 50%, and the number of teams delivering code at least once a month also rose from 33% in 2015 to 36% in 2016. These trends are creating an opportunity for QA teams to adopt Continuous Testing approach. In this session, Pradeep will highlight the key ingredients of Continuous Testing and will talk about real-world examples where he has enabled Agile & DevOps transformation using a Continuous Testing approach.

Bio

Pradeep G is the Chief Technology Officer and President at Cigniti Technologies managing Cigniti North America. In this role he is responsible for revenue targets, business growth and technology strategy for Cigniti NA. Pradeep is an industry thought leader in software testing with over 15 years of experience. He has strong expertise in setting up Testing Centers of Excellence around Test management, Automation, Mobility, SOA and Functional testing. He established more than 20+ teams of 500-member size. He has been the key champion in setting up several niche skill practices for testing offerings around Mobility, Digital Commerce, SOA, Automation, DevOps and Security.

Keith Smith

Sr. Architect

Integral Partners, LLC

Keith Smith

Unintended Uses of SoapUI [Panel]

Talk Description

Keith will join a group of experts on the "Unintended Uses of SoapUI" panel. More about the Panel: SoapUI is the world's most widely-used open source API testing tool for SOAP and REST APIs. SoapUI offers SOAP Web Services functional testing, REST API functional testing, WSDL coverage, message assertion testing and test refactoring. In this panel, users will share some of the interesting things with SoapUI.

Bio

Senior Architect with 30+ years of software and systems development. Currently focused in Identity Governance and Access Management, including Oracle IG and AM products, Sailpoint, Centrify, and Cyberark.

Amit Bansal

Principal Software QA Engineer

Kronos Software Solutions Limited, India

Amit Bansal

Continuous Testing Using Service Virtualization

Talk Description

Service virtualization is the abstraction of a physical service through a proxy or intermediary service. Virtual services are a great tool to reduce dependencies and delays during a delivery cycle, but is a fantastic companion to functional, load, and security testing as well. ServiceV from Smartbear supports virtualization of HTTP, REST, SOAP, JMS and JDBC protocols. In this talk, we are going to discuss the need and benefits of service virtualization with some working examples using ServiceV. After this session, attendees should feel familiar to Service Virtualization and it’s applicability in their current projects.

Bio

Amit Bansal, masters in computer science is having more than 12 years of experience spanning all phases of software development life-cycle. He is working as Principal Software QA Engineer with Kronos Incorporation in its India office. His most of the day goes into solving problems of other QA engineers and enhancing API test automation framework. He has experience working on tools like SoapUI, ServiceV, Parasoft, API testing using third party libraries in JAVA. He loves traveling to new places, trying world cuisines and playing ping-pong.

Al Tsang

CEO and Founder

LunchBadger

Al Tsang

Permutation on Slicing and Dicing by your Microservices

Talk Description

Microservices have garnered a lot of attention to achieve sustainable application development and have greatly influenced API design. When it comes to design, APIs and Microservices are interdependent. A bottoms up approach for API design has led to many questions on how to structure your microservices to achieve proper API symmetry driven. This talk focuses on key considerations, challenges and best practices in how to align microservices with API consumption.

Bio

Al is the CEO and Founder at LunchBadger. He previously co-founded StrongLoop and as CTO, he led the company to a successful acquisition by IBM in 2015. He is also the creator of LoopBack, a leading open source Node.js framework for enterprise APIs.

Mingzhu Gao

QA Team Lead

Schlumberger

Mingzhu Gao

QA Team Lead, Schlumberger

Automation Frameworks with TestComplete [Panel]

Talk Description

Mingzhu will join a group of experts on the "Automation Frameworks with TestComplete." More about the Panel: Everyone has their own style when it comes to building a Test Automation Framework. In this panel, TestComplete customers will discuss their own best practices when building a good automation framework.

Bio

Mingzhu has10 years' experience in test automation for desktop application and web application. Having experience of using IBM Rational Functional Tester, TestComplete, Selenium framework in various projects. Started adopting TestComplete in 2010 for Petrel UI testing in Schlumberger.

Rich Meskill

Associate Director of QA

a Large Sports and Entertainment media company

Rich Meskill

Associate Director of QA , a Large Sports and Entertainment media company

Moving From HP ALM to SmartBear QAComplete – Why and How

Talk Description

A presentation by Rich Meskill and Andy Lachapelle on why they decided to implement QAComplete and their experience doing so.

Bio

Experienced Associate Director Quality Assurance with a history of working in the broadcast media industry. Skilled in Oracle Database, Test Automation, Data Warehousing, and Test Management. Former ASE certified technician with specialties in Gasoline and Diesel Automotive Technology focused in on-board computer management systems.

Jim Trentadue

QA Consultant

QA Management Consultant

Jim Trentadue

QA Consultant, QA Management Consultant

Automation Frameworks with TestComplete [Panel]

Talk Description

Jim will join a group of experts on the "Automation Frameworks with TestComplete." More about the Panel: Everyone has their own style when it comes to building a Test Automation Framework. In this panel, TestComplete customers will discuss their own best practices when building a good automation framework.

Bio

Jim has more than eighteen years of experience as a leader in the software testing field. Jim has focused on test execution, automation, management, environment management, standards deployment, and test tool implementation. Jim is a regular speaker at software testing events, like STAR, BS/AD, STP and QAI Conferences. Most recently, Jim has worked on the vendor side for test automation solution companies engaging customer and prospects. Currently, Jim has started his own Test Automation Foundations & Principles workshop aimed at helping manual testers get started with automation as well as working as a consultant to restart automation efforts.

Chris Riley

Director Solutions Architecture

cPrime, Inc.

Chris Riley

OpenAPI 3.0: Supporting a more mature REST API

Talk Description

The Richardson Maturity model helped categorize an organizations maturity in applying REST principles. From very basic APIs, Maturity Level 0 (POX), to the highest degree of complexity, Maturity Level 3 HATEOAS (Hypertext as the Engine of Application State), the presentation will discuss each level and how the OpenAPI specification is able to support each level with the existing or new 3.0 functionality.

Bio

Chris Riley is Director of Solutions Architecture at cPrime, Inc. and has focused on the services and integration space since 1995 in a variety of pilot, implementation and training roles with companies such as HKM Consulting, PTC, IBM, Cape Clear Software and SOA Systems. In his various capacities, Chris has also been a speaker and contributor at AWS and API Meetups, QCon, SOA Symposium, Developer Week, ECAUG, Prentice Hall Podcasts, Toronto JUG along with publications in TechTarget, SOA Magazine and SOA Design Patterns. Currently Chris is supporting fortune 500 companies in Microservices, DevOps, Middleware and Cloud Computing as part of their IT Strategy.

Lino Tadros

Solution Architect

Solliance

Lino Tadros

TestComplete Trainer [Day One Training]

Talk Description

In this Full day training workshop, attendees will experience TestComplete with Windows application, Web Applications and iOS/Android applications as well. Name mapping, debugging, events, Checkpoints, Latest Javascript ECMA 6 will be discussed and demonstrated. A full session on Best practices with Tips and Tricks will be shared with the attendees. Distributed Testing and testing in the cloud will be explained ad demonstrated as well.

Bio

Alain "Lino" Tadros is a Solution Architect dedicated to providing world-class consulting, training, and software development for small, medium, and enterprise level businesses. Lino has been awarded Microsoft MVP status 15 years in a row for his numerous contributions to the C# community and is an expert in .NET, Azure, ASP.NET, MVC, iOS, Android, Xamarin, Sitefinity and Google Cloud. Lino is a Certified Engineer on TestComplete and an expert of the subject for 18 years. Lino is an industry renowned speaker and has given numerous presentations on 5 different continents since 1994. He also currently sits on the Board of Directors of 4 Silicon Valley corporations.

Gregory Goldshteyn

Principal Founding QA Architect

FloQast

Gregory Goldshteyn

Principal Founding QA Architect, FloQast

Unintended Uses of SoapUI [Panel]

Talk Description

Greg will join a group of experts on the "Unintended Uses of SoapUI" panel. More about the Panel: SoapUI is the world's most widely-used open source API testing tool for SOAP and REST APIs. SoapUI offers SOAP Web Services functional testing, REST API functional testing, WSDL coverage, message assertion testing and test refactoring. In this panel, users will share some of the interesting things with SoapUI.

Bio

Top tier Principal QA Architect with 20 years experience in the IT industry

Justin Teague

Chief Executive Officer

SmartBear

Justin Teague

Chief Executive Officer, SmartBear

Welcome to SmartBear

Talk Description

Bio

As CEO, Justin is responsible for SmartBear’s strategic direction and overall operation. Prior to his role as CEO, Justin served as SmartBear’s COO and President where he oversaw all sales, marketing, product management and strategy functions as well as execution for the company. Justin came to SmartBear from Bullhorn where he was COO. At Bullhorn, he owned the growth strategy and execution, which led the company through a three-year period of considerable sales growth in excess of 40 percent per year. At Bullhorn, one of the software industry’s fastest growing cloud/SaaS companies and leader in vertical CRM solutions, he managed all aspects of global sales operations and strategic growth initiatives after also managing the customer success organizations including support, services and renewals

Bio

Ole Lensmar is chief technology officer at SmartBear Software, allowing him to live his passion for software development in a creative and thriving work environment. Ole is the co-founder of Eviware Software which was acquired by SmartBear in 2011, and also the co-founder of base8, an XML oriented consulting company in 1996, acquired by the publicly traded Mogul in 1998. Ole worked as CTO, product owner and lead evangelist for Mogul’s software portfolio, including an XML based CMS and a high performance search engine. At Eviware Software, Ole created SoapUI, now the most used open source testing tool in the world with five million downloads and one million active users. He speaks frequently on the importance of API testing and other related topics, most recently at STARWEST 2013, the API Strategy & Practice Conference, and API Days.

Ryan Lloyd

VP of Products, Test and Development

SmartBear

Ryan Lloyd

“Ask Me Anything” with SmartBear’s Product Leaders

Talk Description

SmartBear's technology and product leadership team will host an intimate, interactive session where you can ask all your burning product questions. get insights into what's on their mind, and learn more what they are planning from a product roadmap perspective.

Bio

As Vice President of Products, Test and Development at SmartBear, Ryan Lloyd leads the direction and growth of SmartBear’s industry leading test and development tools, ensuring entire software teams, including developers, testers and operations, address their biggest challenges amidst market changes. Previously, Ryan was Vice President, Product Management and Strategy at product lifecycle management company, PTC. He has spent more than 15 years developing deep domain knowledge in software engineering.

Anand Sundaram

Vice President of Products, AlertSite

SmartBear

Anand Sundaram

Vice President of Products, AlertSite, SmartBear

“Ask Me Anything” with SmartBear’s Product Leaders

Talk Description

SmartBear's technology and product leadership team will host an intimate, interactive session where you can ask all your burning product questions. get insights into what's on their mind, and learn more what they are planning from a product roadmap perspective.

Bio

Anand Sundaram has nearly 25 years of experience building and growing several technology businesses. He is the co-founder of three startups including RSW Software that was valued at more than $240 million and comprised more than 160 employees. He has extensive background in software quality, security and post deployment monitoring having built two load testing products and invented the first post deployment deep transaction monitoring product.

Daniel Giordano

Daniel Giordano

CrossBrowserTesting Trainer [Day One Training]

Talk Description

In this full day training workshop, attendees will be trained on all things CrossBrowserTesting. Sessions will include the latest trends in Selenium, parallel testing, exploratory testing, and more.

Bio

Daniel Giordano runs marketing for the CrossBrowserTesting product at SmartBear. He has been recently involved with assisting testers make the transition from manual to automated testing using the Selenium framework. After graduating from Wesleyan University, he dove into digital marketing and front-end web development. While working at a Digital Development studio remotely, he traveled around Europe and South America in his early twenties

John Lucania

Technical Engineer Team Lead

SmartBear

John Lucania

Technical Engineer Team Lead, SmartBear

AlertSite Trainer [Day One Training]

Talk Description

In this Full day training workshop, attendees will experience AlertSite. Topics covered include: (1) Monitoring internal facing applications (2) Creation of a POST request in UXM (3) Excluding third and 4th party calls from DejaClick results (4) Dashboard management and (5) Slack and Splunk integration. The Day One AlertSite track will conclude with an AlertSite best practices session.

Bio

As Senior Sales Engineer for the SaaS monitoring platform AlertSite, Lucania works with customers every day to execute a sound monitoring strategy. His journey into recognizing performance as a critical component of user experience started at the Internet and colocation company InterNap evolving into a career in Web Application monitoring in the mid 2000 with Gomez. Now he is a leading evangelist for performance monitoring at SmartBear with industry experience spanning over seven years. Lucania has worked with hundreds of companies in defining SLA best practices and performance monitoring strategies to achieve the visibility they need to manage their external web operations. He believes a consistent web user experience is best monitored from a neutral vantage point using the same tool a user uses, a browser.

Michael Giller

Manager of Sales Engineer Team (API)

SmartBear

Michael Giller

ReadyAPI Trainer [Day One Training]

Talk Description

In this full day training of ReadyAPI, attendees will learn how to create comprehensive, end-to-end API functional tests. How to work with REST and SOAP APIs, involve data in testing, and add API tests into their CI/CD DevOps strategy. In addition, we will go over comprehensive aspects of API Security test, API performance testing and API Virtualization / mocking.

Bio

Mike Giller has worked in technical customer facing pre-sales and post-sales roles for well over a decade. His experience in working with e-commerce and financial software taught valuable, real-life lessons on the importance of software quality. In the last five years Mike has focused on APIs, specifically in terms of ensuring quality, as APIs are the underlying logic driving many different types of applications. Mike posts frequently on the SmartBear blog on emerging topics around the world of APIs which include but are not limited to microservices, API performance, security and service virtualization.

Christian Wright

EVP and GM, API Business

SmartBear

Christian Wright

EVP and GM, API Business, SmartBear

“Ask Me Anything” with SmartBear’s Product Leaders

Talk Description

SmartBear's technology and product leadership team will host an intimate, interactive session where you can ask all your burning product questions. get insights into what's on their mind, and learn more what they are planning from a product roadmap perspective.

Bio

In his role as EVP and GM of Smartbear’s API Business, Christian is responsible for leading the company’s API business strategy and operations, product development, and market alliances. Christian is passionate about growing and leading disruptive customer-focused companies. He has a strong track record of growing Marketing Technology and Enterprise SaaS Applications. Prior to joining SmartBear, Christian held multiple CTO and GM positions within eBay Enterprise. While at eBay Enterprise, Christian facilitated the divestiture of the eBay Enterprises marketing technology product lines, first to a consortium of PE firms and ultimately to Zeta Interactive. Prior to eBay, he held CTO and P&L roles at multiple high-growth companies in the marketing technology and services space including KBM, MITI, and Merkle.

Bryan Semple

Chief Marketing Officer

SmartBear

Bryan Semple

Welcome to SmartBear Connect 2017

Talk Description

Bio

A 20+ year high-tech veteran, Bryan has spent the last 11 years working in datacenter infrastructure and operations companies. Bryan Semple comes to SmartBear from Dell where he worked for the CMO of Dell Software Group to expand high velocity sales and marketing processes across the Dell software portfolio. He joined Dell after the acquisition of VKernel, where he served as CMO. At VKernel, Semple developed and expanded a try/buy download model that grew the business 100% and help lead to the company’s successful acquisition by Quest Software, then Dell.